Quotes By Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

Never follow the crowd.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.